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Derek Kreckler
1952 Born in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Australia
Education
1977-1980 Bachelor of Visual Arts, South Australian School of Art
1984 Postgraduate studies, Sydney College of the Arts
1989 Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2020
How to discipline a tree, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland
2018
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Australian Embassy, Berlin European Month of Photography
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Bathurst Art Gallery, Bathurst
2017
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland
2016
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Horsham Gallery, Horsham
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Geraldton Gallery, Geraldton
2015
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2014
Littoral, Project Contemporary, Wollongong
2013
Untitled video, Multimedia Artists Asia Pacific, Brisbane
2012
Appropriated Circumstance, Billboards, M1, Heathcote and Waterfall, NSW
2011
Big Wave Hunting, University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong
Adaption, University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong
Accident & Process, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2010
How to discipline a tree and Photographs from China, The Paper Mill, Sydney
2008
Façade – found people, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
2006
Derek Kreckler: New Work, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2005
Derek Kreckler: Downstairs, Performance Space, Sydney
2003
The Looking and Other Outcomes, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Blind Ned, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
White Pointer – You are listening to the sounds of humans observing fish,
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
The Looking and Other Outcomes, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
1993
The High Cost of Living, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
White Pointer – You are listening to the sounds of humans observing fish,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Opinionated, Performance Space, Sydney
Boo! Black Gallery, Sydney
1992
Fountain, Artspace, Sydney
1991
Derek Kreckler, Studio residency (1991-1992) PS1 New York
Conceptual Theatres, The Performance Space, Sydney
1990
How to discipline a tree, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1989
Interruption, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1987
Stolen Time, Performance Space, Sydney
1986
Last Stand… Standing Still, Performance Space, Sydney
1985
Scene from an unfinished work: Percy Grainger meet Cornelius Cardew, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Radioing, sometimes myth, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
1982
Eight Drawings, Art Unit, Sydney
1979
Wet Dream, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
Free Movies, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
1978
Bicycle Race, Stanley Street, Adelaide
1977
Grid, North Adelaide Parklands, Adelaide
Select Group Exhibitions
2020
100 Ways to live a minute, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
2018
Bicycle Race 1978, LOOP Video Festival, Barcelona
2017
Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art, Griffith Art Gallery, Brisbane
2015
A Time and a Place: Landscapes from the Griffith At Collection, Brisbane
Land Sea Sky, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2014
Land Sea Sky, One and J Gallery, Seoul
Land Sea Sky, Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai
Land Sea Sky, National Art School, Sydney
Land Sea Sky, Griffith University Gallery, Brisbane
2013
Bowness Photographic Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2009
Twelve Degrees of Latitude, touring Queensland (2009-2011)
2007
Artist Makes Video (1994-1998), Artrage Survey Brisbane
2006
Sub-Terrain, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth
2005
Mixed Tape, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2004
Clouded Over, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth
On Reason and Emotion, 14th Biennale of Sydney,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Biennale of Contemporary Photo-media, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2003
Clemenger Contemporary Art Awards, Ian Potter Centre
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2001
Quotidian, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1999
Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Living here now: Art and Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
A Window Inside Out, Kwangju City Art Museum, Seoul
1998
Body of Information, New Brunswick, Canada
Artists Against Racism, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
FIN, Museo de Arte Moderno da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil
Classic FM, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney
1997
Fire & Life, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
1996
Fire & Life, Gallery Chemold, Mumbai
1995
The Listening Room, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney
Sounds in Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1994
Eyewitness, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Sydney Inter-media Network, Art Galley of New South Wales, Sydney
25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1993
Experimenta, Victorian Centre for Photography, Melbourne
1992
Encounters with Diversity, PS1, New York
1992
Artists Space, New York
1990
The Readymade Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Temporal Frames, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Detail, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Canberra
1989
Attitude: Film & Video, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
4th Australian Video Festival, Performance Space, Sydney
1986
Origins, Originality + Beyond, 6th Biennale of Sydney, Performance Space, Sydney
1985
Australian Perspecta, Performance Space, Sydney
1984
Interface, Australian Ministry of Technology, Adelaide
Adelaide festival of the Arts, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide
1983
Australia New Zealand Artists Exchange, Hobart
1982
Vision in Disbelief, 4th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Collaborative Works
2013
Good Little Soldier, set design (with Animal Farm Collective),
Radial System V, Berlin
1993
Dali, writer and direction (with David Field) , La Mama Theatre Melbourne, Stables Theatre, Sydney
Derek Kreckler: Sit.Com, Sidetrack Performance Group, Sydney
1990
Off-Cuts, set design (with Leisure of the Damned), Performance Space, Sydney
1988
The 8th National Review of Live Art, (with Told by an Idiot), Flaxman Gallery London, Third Eye Centre Glasgow, The lead Mill Sheffield, Ferens Art Gallery Hull, UK
1980
Saltworks: audio – performance – installation, (co-curator with Bernard Sachs), Carclew House, Adelaide
1979
Sound and Light, co-curator, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
Bibliography
Wilson, S (et al) 2017,
Speed=Distance/Time, Terra Firma Magazine, London
McLean, I (et al) 2015,
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Perimeter Editions Melbourne
Tillers, I (et al) 2015,
Artist’s Choice – Five Decades of Australian Art Writing, Essays from Art & Australia Magazine 1967 – 2014
Thompson, A 2012,
Derek Kreckler, Appropriate Circumstance, Illawarra Mercury June 3
Fitzgerald, M 2011,
Derek Kreckler: downstairs, Sydney Morning Herald May 26
Ennis, H 2007,
Exposures, Photography and Australia, Reaktion books London 2007
French, B 2007,
Out Of Time: Essays Between Art and Photography, Contemporary Art Centre South Australia. Adelaide.
Angeloro, D 2006,
Defying Perceptual Passivity, RealTime 71 2006.
Geczy, A 2006,
Blind (Ned) Leading the Blind, Broadsheet 35 No1
Duncan, J 2005
‘Derek Kreckler’ Mix Tape, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Grayson, R 2005,
Uncanny Tales from In-between: Some Recent Australian Art,
Venice Biennale 2005 essay series, Australia Council 16/09/2013
Wei, L 2004,
South by Southeast: the 14th Sydney Biennale, Art in America, December
French, B 2004,
Derek Kreckler: Allegories Of Vision, On Reason and Emotion, 14th Biennale of Sydney, catalogue
Mateer, J 2004,
Derek Kreckler, Adelaide Biennale of Art catalogue
Fitzgerald, M, 2004,
Time Magazine, Not Dying, Changing, March 24
McLean, I 2004,
The Real Thing, Artlink vol 24 no 1
Parr, M 2004,
Holey Smoke, Art and Australia, vol 24
Ward, O 2004
Biennale of Sydney Various Locations, Frieze Magazine, Issue 86 October
Cromby, I 2003,
Derek Kreckler, Clemenger Contemporary Art Awards, exhibition catalogue National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003.
Mateer, J 2002,
Naturalisation: Recent Australian Art and the Natural,
Art Monthly, No. 146.
O’connell, S 2000,
Australian Perspecta 99, Frieze Magazine Issue 50 January
Green, C 1999,
Living Here Now – Art and Politics, Art and Australia vol 37
Sunanda, C 1999,
Australian Perspecta 99, Sydney Morning Herald September 9
Waterlow, N 1994,
25 Years of Performance Art, University of NSW
Marsh, A 1993,
A History of Australian Performance Art 1962-90,
Oxford University Press, Melbourne Australia
Selenitsch, A 1993,
White Pointer, Agenda Magazine, Centre for Design RMIT
Ward, F 1993,
Derek Kreckler: Fountain, Artspace catalogue, Sydney
Gabalova, Z 1992,
Encounters With Diversity, P.S. 1 New York
Block, R 1990,
Ready Made Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney, Catalogue (V1 and 2.)
Ewington, J 1990,
Detail: A Small Exhibition in the Environment, ANU 1990
Murphy, A 1990,
Beyond Presence, New technologies and the Arts, Arts Council of Great Britain
Residencies / awards
Hill End residency, Bathurst Regional 2016
Australia Council Travel Grant 2014
Australia Council New Media Fellowship 2000-2001
Asia-link Residency, Mumbai 1996
Australia Council Visual Arts and Craft Fellowship 1995-1996
Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship 1991-1992
NSW Ministry for the Arts, (Animation for a railway tunnel) 1993
Theatre works (link to Austage)
« return
« download Résumé
« view Select Works
« return to Menu
Derek Kreckler
1952 Born in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Australia
Education
1977-1980 Bachelor of Visual Arts, South Australian School of Art
1984 Postgraduate studies, Sydney College of the Arts
1989 Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2020
How to discipline a tree, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland
2018
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Australian Embassy, Berlin European Month of Photography
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Bathurst Art Gallery, Bathurst
2017
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland
2016
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Horsham Gallery, Horsham
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Geraldton Gallery, Geraldton
2015
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2014
Littoral, Project Contemporary, Wollongong
2013
Untitled video, Multimedia Artists Asia Pacific, Brisbane
2012
Appropriated Circumstance, Billboards, M1, Heathcote and Waterfall, NSW
2011
Big Wave Hunting, University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong
Adaption, University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong
Accident & Process, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2010
How to discipline a tree and Photographs from China, The Paper Mill, Sydney
2008
Façade – found people, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
2006
Derek Kreckler: New Work, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2005
Derek Kreckler: Downstairs, Performance Space, Sydney
2003
The Looking and Other Outcomes, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Blind Ned, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
White Pointer – You are listening to the sounds of humans observing fish,
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
The Looking and Other Outcomes, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
1993
The High Cost of Living, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
White Pointer – You are listening to the sounds of humans observing fish,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Opinionated, Performance Space, Sydney
Boo! Black Gallery, Sydney
1992
Fountain, Artspace, Sydney
1991
Derek Kreckler, Studio residency (1991-1992) PS1 New York
Conceptual Theatres, The Performance Space, Sydney
1990
How to discipline a tree, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1989
Interruption, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1987
Stolen Time, Performance Space, Sydney
1986
Last Stand… Standing Still, Performance Space, Sydney
1985
Scene from an unfinished work: Percy Grainger meet Cornelius Cardew, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Radioing, sometimes myth, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
1982
Eight Drawings, Art Unit, Sydney
1979
Wet Dream, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
Free Movies, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
1978
Bicycle Race, Stanley Street, Adelaide
1977
Grid, North Adelaide Parklands, Adelaide
Select Group Exhibitions
2020
100 Ways to live a minute, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
2018
Bicycle Race 1978, LOOP Video Festival, Barcelona
2017
Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art, Griffith Art Gallery, Brisbane
2015
A Time and a Place: Landscapes from the Griffith At Collection, Brisbane
Land Sea Sky, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2014
Land Sea Sky, One and J Gallery, Seoul
Land Sea Sky, Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai
Land Sea Sky, National Art School, Sydney
Land Sea Sky, Griffith University Gallery, Brisbane
2013
Bowness Photographic Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2009
Twelve Degrees of Latitude, touring Queensland (2009-2011)
2007
Artist Makes Video (1994-1998), Artrage Survey Brisbane
2006
Sub-Terrain, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth
2005
Mixed Tape, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2004
Clouded Over, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth
On Reason and Emotion, 14th Biennale of Sydney,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Biennale of Contemporary Photo-media, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2003
Clemenger Contemporary Art Awards, Ian Potter Centre
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2001
Quotidian, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1999
Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Living here now: Art and Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
A Window Inside Out, Kwangju City Art Museum, Seoul
1998
Body of Information, New Brunswick, Canada
Artists Against Racism, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
FIN, Museo de Arte Moderno da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil
Classic FM, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney
1997
Fire & Life, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
1996
Fire & Life, Gallery Chemold, Mumbai
1995
The Listening Room, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney
Sounds in Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1994
Eyewitness, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Sydney Inter-media Network, Art Galley of New South Wales, Sydney
25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1993
Experimenta, Victorian Centre for Photography, Melbourne
1992
Encounters with Diversity, PS1, New York
1992
Artists Space, New York
1990
The Readymade Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Temporal Frames, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Detail, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Canberra
1989
Attitude: Film & Video, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
4th Australian Video Festival, Performance Space, Sydney
1986
Origins, Originality + Beyond, 6th Biennale of Sydney, Performance Space, Sydney
1985
Australian Perspecta, Performance Space, Sydney
1984
Interface, Australian Ministry of Technology, Adelaide
Adelaide festival of the Arts, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide
1983
Australia New Zealand Artists Exchange, Hobart
1982
Vision in Disbelief, 4th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Collaborative Works
2013
Good Little Soldier, set design (with Animal Farm Collective),
Radial System V, Berlin
1993
Dali, writer and direction (with David Field) , La Mama Theatre Melbourne, Stables Theatre, Sydney
Derek Kreckler: Sit.Com, Sidetrack Performance Group, Sydney
1990
Off-Cuts, set design (with Leisure of the Damned), Performance Space, Sydney
1988
The 8th National Review of Live Art, (with Told by an Idiot), Flaxman Gallery London, Third Eye Centre Glasgow, The lead Mill Sheffield, Ferens Art Gallery Hull, UK
1980
Saltworks: audio – performance – installation, (co-curator with Bernard Sachs), Carclew House, Adelaide
1979
Sound and Light, co-curator, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
Bibliography
Wilson, S (et al) 2017,
Speed=Distance/Time, Terra Firma Magazine, London
McLean, I (et al) 2015,
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, Perimeter Editions Melbourne
Tillers, I (et al) 2015,
Artist’s Choice – Five Decades of Australian Art Writing, Essays from Art & Australia Magazine 1967 – 2014
Thompson, A 2012,
Derek Kreckler, Appropriate Circumstance, Illawarra Mercury June 3
Fitzgerald, M 2011,
Derek Kreckler: downstairs, Sydney Morning Herald May 26
Ennis, H 2007,
Exposures, Photography and Australia, Reaktion books London 2007
French, B 2007,
Out Of Time: Essays Between Art and Photography, Contemporary Art Centre South Australia. Adelaide.
Angeloro, D 2006,
Defying Perceptual Passivity, RealTime 71 2006.
Geczy, A 2006,
Blind (Ned) Leading the Blind, Broadsheet 35 No1
Duncan, J 2005
‘Derek Kreckler’ Mix Tape, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Grayson, R 2005,
Uncanny Tales from In-between: Some Recent Australian Art,
Venice Biennale 2005 essay series, Australia Council 16/09/2013
Wei, L 2004,
South by Southeast: the 14th Sydney Biennale, Art in America, December
French, B 2004,
Derek Kreckler: Allegories Of Vision, On Reason and Emotion, 14th Biennale of Sydney, catalogue
Mateer, J 2004,
Derek Kreckler, Adelaide Biennale of Art catalogue
Fitzgerald, M, 2004,
Time Magazine, Not Dying, Changing, March 24
McLean, I 2004,
The Real Thing, Artlink vol 24 no 1
Parr, M 2004,
Holey Smoke, Art and Australia, vol 24
Ward, O 2004
Biennale of Sydney Various Locations, Frieze Magazine, Issue 86 October
Cromby, I 2003,
Derek Kreckler, Clemenger Contemporary Art Awards, exhibition catalogue National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003.
Mateer, J 2002,
Naturalisation: Recent Australian Art and the Natural,
Art Monthly, No. 146.
O’connell, S 2000,
Australian Perspecta 99, Frieze Magazine Issue 50 January
Green, C 1999,
Living Here Now – Art and Politics, Art and Australia vol 37
Sunanda, C 1999,
Australian Perspecta 99, Sydney Morning Herald September 9
Waterlow, N 1994,
25 Years of Performance Art, University of NSW
Marsh, A 1993,
A History of Australian Performance Art 1962-90,
Oxford University Press, Melbourne Australia
Selenitsch, A 1993,
White Pointer, Agenda Magazine, Centre for Design RMIT
Ward, F 1993,
Derek Kreckler: Fountain, Artspace catalogue, Sydney
Gabalova, Z 1992,
Encounters With Diversity, P.S. 1 New York
Block, R 1990,
Ready Made Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney, Catalogue (V1 and 2.)
Ewington, J 1990,
Detail: A Small Exhibition in the Environment, ANU 1990
Murphy, A 1990,
Beyond Presence, New technologies and the Arts, Arts Council of Great Britain
Residencies / awards
Hill End residency, Bathurst Regional 2016
Australia Council Travel Grant 2014
Australia Council New Media Fellowship 2000-2001
Asia-link Residency, Mumbai 1996
Australia Council Visual Arts and Craft Fellowship 1995-1996
Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship 1991-1992
NSW Ministry for the Arts, (Animation for a railway tunnel) 1993
Theatre works (link to Austage)
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